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  A Housing Agenda for Oregon: More Homes without Higher Prices

  The usual way to get more homes built is wait for prices go up. But there is another way.

  Feb 7, 2024
  February 7, 2024

  Michael Andersen

  https://www.sightline.org/profile/michael-andersen/

  

  Senior Housing Researcher and Transportation Lead
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  Inside Minnesota’s People over Parking Act, with Chris Meyer

  Making the case for statewide elimination of parking mandates.

  Feb 2, 2024
  February 2, 2024

  Catie Gould

  https://www.sightline.org/profile/catie-gould/

  

  Senior Researcher, Transportation
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  Anchorage Removes Barriers to Small Multifamily Homes

  City leaders take another step toward allowing more new homes, in more sizes and varying price points, in Alaska’s largest city.

  Jan 25, 2024
  January 25, 2024

  Jeannette Lee

  https://www.sightline.org/profile/jeannette-lee/

  

  Alaska Research Director
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  Washington Bill Would Legalize Low-cost “Co-living” Homes

  Co-living is an affordable, flexible, community-forward type of housing that serves diverse needs for people in all stages of life.

  Jan 5, 2024
  January 5, 2024

  Dan Bertolet

  https://www.sightline.org/profile/danbertolet/

  

  Senior Director, Housing and Urbanism
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  How Parking Ratios Kill Homes

  A string of mistakes in one city shows how easily local rules can turn arbitrary and destructive.

  Dec 6, 2023
  December 6, 2023

  Catie Gould

  https://www.sightline.org/profile/catie-gould/

  

  Senior Researcher, Transportation
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  Micro-housing: It’s Not about the Size but How You Use It

  And the National Healthy Housing Standard agrees.

  Nov 2, 2023
  November 2, 2023

  David Neiman

  https://www.sightline.org/profile/davidneiman/

  
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  Recent Reforms Could Make a Real Neighborhood of Downtown Anchorage

  A vibrant downtown needs residents. And residents need housing. Convenience stores wouldn’t hurt either.

  Sep 29, 2023
  September 29, 2023

  Jeannette Lee

  https://www.sightline.org/profile/jeannette-lee/

  

  Alaska Research Director
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  Learning from the Least Housed

  A case for agile, self-build, and bottom-up options to unlock housing choice… by many means necessary.

  Sep 14, 2023
  September 14, 2023

  Tim McCormick

  https://www.sightline.org/profile/tim-mccormick/

  

  Contributor
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  Four Ways to Improve Portland’s Housing Affordability Mandate

  Small changes could fully fund the program and produce many more affordable homes in desirable areas.

  Aug 1, 2023
  August 1, 2023

  Michael Andersen

  https://www.sightline.org/profile/michael-andersen/

  

  Senior Housing Researcher and Transportation Lead
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  Oregon’s Land Use Law Creates Wildfire-Adapted Communities

  Bend residents have shown us how.

  Jul 25, 2023
  July 25, 2023

  Kate Anderson

  https://www.sightline.org/profile/kate-anderson/

  

  Senior Researcher, Farms and Forests
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